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-Livid Love?-

Sequel to "Rocky Relationships?"

A Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction

By: The Darkside Incarnate

-Chapter 1: On Our Way-

The air is chilly, cold and scratchy as it blows through my hair; stroking it like a lover. I adjust the rear-view mirror, examining the road behind me. Axel, Roxas, Namine and Wakka are following behind us, in a big black car. Kairi and Sora are in the back of my car, no longer acknowledging each other's existence; Selphie is in the middle of them, with Tidus in the passenger seat and me, Sakura, driving. Riku decided to take his own car.

It's sad, that my boyfriend can't be with me. After all, I'm surrounded by bad juju…Sora and Kairi with their gruesome stormy little auras. I can almost feel the bitter resentment that they have towards each other.

But I have to admit, they have good reasons for hating each other. After all the bumps and sinkholes in the great road that was their relationship…it's a miracle that they aren't trying to assassinate one another.

But that WOULD be fun to watch…Kairi trying to claw Sora's eyes out…I chuckle to myself, throwing a quick glance at the back seat.

Selphie looks terrified, glancing back and fourth between the two teenagers on either side of her. Kairi is tapping the windowpane nervously, as if she can't wait to get out of the car.

Sora's biting his lip, desperate to get as far away from Kairi as possible. Poor Selphie…I honestly feel sorry for anyone that would ever have to sit between those two.

So many things happened last year.

My best friend Namine found a boy. I fell in love, not for the first time, of course. I had sex (not the first time for that either) with said boy. Organization 13 took a life…the life of my new friend.

I still remember the tortured look on Axel's face, the wide eyed gaze, tears at the ready. And the corpse…that had to be the worst part.

Her name was Larxene…and she was a former member of Organization 13. She and Axel had long been employed in the enraged-teen organization; until their leader, Xemnas, became so obsessed with their ultimate goal—to destroy the Shinra Company—that he took a life. Axel left the organization…Larxene didn't. She had no choice. Xemnas had taken an interest in her.

Then, months later, during our final show-down with organization 13, Marluxia—Xemnas right hand man—tried to shoot me, that's when Larxene did it. She pushed me out of the way and saved my life…by losing hers.

I feel like it should have been me…that I should have been the one to…never mind.

But still, bitterness, sadness and hatred aside; it was a scary year. But a lot has happened since then, everyone's graduated, Namine's happy…

Sora speed dates.

Axel hasn't smiled in months.

Roxas and Namine try to hold us all together…

But Riku loves me, that has to be a plus, right? Not to mention he's totally sexy (coughdoublepluscough).

I glance into the back seat, by way of the Rear View Mirror. Sora is staring out the window with dismal eyes, his hands clenching and unclenching spastically. He isn't as happy as he once was, everyone can see that. But he puts on a brave face…he tries to be outgoing and popular and…well, everything he was.

But it isn't the same.

Kairi, of course, is carefully indifferent…

Oh lets be honest with our selves; she can't wait to get as faraway from this car as possible. She keeps flipping her hair over each shoulder, much to Selphie's annoyance.

I look over at Tidus, who's snoring softly.

I can feel the tension in the air; thicker then usual. I can't say that my friends have been all that fun these days. But who can expect that of them? After all that they went through?

But Roxas and Namine have been trying, at least. Roxas threw a big "end-of-high-school" bash, it was fun, but Sora and Kairi ruined it with one of their rare confrontational spats.

I spent the summer with my parents back in Traverse Town, so I didn't see much of everyone. Sora, Roxas and Riku went to a bunch of blitz ball games across the country. Axel had to get a job, Kairi, Namine and Selphie went to visit Kairi's cousins in Spira.

Tidus and Wakka stayed on the Islands, perfecting their (insert air quotes HERE) "mad skills".

But summer's over, and the next great adventure begins…COLLEGE.

We're off to the Disney University. Amazingly enough, we all got accepted in the same place; pretty spectacular, right? When Namine found out she screamed her head off in joy. I, being the realistic one of the group, cringed, realizing how serious the situation was; I mean, lets think about this for JUST five seconds.

Problem number one; Kairi and Sora, what was once the Golden Couple is now something terrible and vile…they've become enemies, no, worse then that. They're magnets; torn apart by their own personalities, a wedge of loathing driven between them.

Problem number two; Namine and Roxas, they'll try to keep the gang together. But they can't. And the effort of trying will slowly destroy them.

Problem number three; Axel, a grieving Pyromaniac, a man who's lost his one true love; he's bitter, restful and scorned. Roxas invites him to all of our "outings" and yet he continues to be antisocial, but who can blame him? He's lost the meaning of his existence after all…or some such romantics.

If I lost Riku I'd be the same way…I think. There must be some part of me that's alive-enough to care.

And of course there are the numerous other clashes of our group. Kairi hates my guts, Sora wants me, with all of his heart (every once in a while I see him look at me, observing all of my…better qualities), Riku hates him for it…

The clashes just keep piling up, don't they?

I turn the wheel, manipulating the car into a parking lot. I've been drawn here for the promise of food.

There's a large sign at the entrance; "Port Royal Café".

It's a long way to Disney University, after all. Port Royal is only one of the towns we have to pass through, there has to be SOMETHING to do here, right?

A/N BACK AND BETTER THEN EVER!

That's right, this is it! The big premiere of the Rocky Relationships sequel!

Okay, I'll be honest, for a couple of months I wasn't sure that I ever WOULD write this story. Up until a few days ago, I had no motivation to write fan fiction, although I had plenty to write the original kind, I still couldn't bring myself to do it.

But a few days ago, I was stricken by something. As sudden and powerful as a thunderbolt, yet as gentle and beautiful as a lover's kiss, it was…INSPIRATION!

See, I've had the Livid Love story inside my mind for a long time, in chapter 15 of Rocky Relationships I started considering it, actually. By chapter 17 I had a rough outline inside my head.

But then, a few days ago, I found myself hungry for the feeling of keys tapping beneath my fingertips…I thirsted for descriptive paragraphs to trail from my mind…for dialogue to swirl off my tongue.

And so, Chapter 1 was born.

Next time on Livid Love (God, it feels so good to say that): The Gang eats at the "Port Royal Café", Sora formulates a plan to win Sakura's heart, Riku's sexually frustrated and Kairi can't take her eyes off of the mysterious boat drifters…

But besides that, there's even more news. I'm also posting a "Double Date: Extras Edition". WHAT is DD: EE, you ask? Well, basically it's like the Special Features menu on a DVD. It'll feature an in-depth look into all of the characters, a "writer's commentary" in which I'll copy and paste sections of selected chapters and talk about what I was going for IN said chapters. There will be a "DD Overview" in which I give a basic summary of DD, a "Story Arc Guide" and a humorous bloopers section, in which, everything that could go wrong in certain chapters, WILL go wrong. After that there will probably be a "Rocky Relationships: Extras Edition" as well as a Livid Love version, after LL is finished of course.